Healthy Living, Clean Food, and Our Culture’s Relationship to Them

I'm Michelle. I blog about food, food politics, diet, organic nutrition, and holistic health. I've seen and experienced near miraculous things through right application of organic living. I'm passionate about dispelling misconceptions in pop-health and talking about the attitudes that keep real health alluding so many. When I first became obsessed with organic foods, my mother took to calling me "Cabbage Patch Girl" as a nick name and it stuck.

If you have a topic related to anything organic that you'd like to see explored in a new way, reach out to me and let me know.

In 1982 Karen Carpenter shocked the world by dying of a disease that most people had never heard of. Anorexia Nervosa. In the ensuing years, rates of anorexia skyrocketed with more and more girls and even boys literally starving themselves because of a warped body image and other psychological disorders. Fast forward to 2016 […]

If a miracle youth elixir really exists, it’s water. Drinking water flushes away the toxins that age us. It hydrates our skin, supports all of the bodies systems that are responsible for cellular renewal, and it aids the body in getting rid of excess fat. One good rule of thumb to figure out how much […]

People have been told for years now that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The reasons given for this claim are always something like; people who eat in the morning eat less throughout the day. Or people who eat breakfast make better food choices later in the day. These statements are not […]

I guess it’s time I finally tell you my story. I’ll try to skip quickly over the boring parts but I think it’s a good story to hear because it shows how drastically nutrition can change lives, and how important it is to educate yourself about what you put into your body. When I was […]